WASHINGTON -- Promoting the image of a new Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives Monday in Washington on a cross-country trip to court government officials, Silicon Valley technology companies, investors and one of his biggest fans: President Donald Trump.

Yes, Cambridge Analytica, the data-analysis firm that helped. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, violated rules when it obtained information from about 50 million Facebook profiles, the social-media company acknowledged. But the data came from someone who didn't ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- By justifying tariffs on steel and aluminum in the name of national security, President Donald Trump has threatened the global trading order.

For decades that order has been underpinned by the World Trade Organization, whose 164 member-states have agreed to abide by WTO rules for open trade and settling disputes. The United States...Read more

Smartphone-maker Motorola Mobility has laid off about 200 employees at its Chicago headquarters, according to sources.

Motorola spokeswoman Kathryn Hanley would not confirm the scope of the layoffs, but said the affected employees received notice last week. The layoffs are part of a previously announced global restructuring under Chinese parent...Read more

CHICAGO -- An Amazon advance team will hit Chicago late next week to visit some of the proposed locations for a new headquarters, a source familiar with the visit who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly said Friday.

Company officials will visit a handful of the 10 sites city and state officials have pitched, the source said. It's ...Read more

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Silicon Valley's tech giants are famously secretive -- after all their proprietary products and services are worth billions -- but a new report alleges that Facebook goes to Orwellian lengths to keep its workers from talking out of turn, even about their working conditions.

One Facebook employee was told he was led to expect a promotion, but ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Qualcomm director Paul Jacobs has reportedly informed the company's board of directors that he intends to partner with investment firms to make an offer to buy the semiconductor giant based in San Diego.

Jacobs made his intentions known to the company's directors in a letter sent on Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The promise of a global electric vehicle transformation has a looming problem.

The cathodes in the lithium-ion batteries typically used in electric vehicles, or EVs, are made of metal oxides that contain cobalt, a metal found in finite supplies and concentrated in one of the globe's more precarious countries.

Wells Fargo & Co. failed to notify some customers about its $142-million class-action settlement over its unauthorized accounts scandal -- an error that could give customers more time to participate in the deal but contribute to months of delay in receiving payments.

The bank last month told attorneys representing customers that it did not send...Read more

Across the United States, more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations engage in remarkable work to transform lives, communities and the planet. Unfortunately, these organizations currently face a wide range of growing pressures.

Consider these facts:

--In 2013, nonprofit organizations employed more than 10.6 percent of the workforce (14.4 ...Read more

The nasty secret of being a new entrepreneur is that your tax bill might be way higher than you'd imagine.

When you're driving for Uber, delivering for Amazon, picking up freelance jobs or otherwise participating in the gig economy, you aren't working for a boss who is required to withhold taxes from a regular paycheck. As a result, you're ...Read more

DALLAS -- A federal appeals court struck down an Obama-era rule requiring retirement account managers to put their clients' interests ahead of their own, handing a victory to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans ruled 2-1 to vacate the fiduciary rule, noting that ...Read more

Being the chairman of the Federal Reserve is to walk a tightrope. Say too much or the wrong thing, and you can upset investment markets to the tune of trillions of dollars. Don't say enough, and rumor and innuendo rule the day.

Jerome Powell steps out onto that tightrope Wednesday afternoon in the week ahead when he holds his first press ...Read more